1. Coordinate with other shop drawing engineers to produce shop drawings with focus on aesthetics and cost control.
2. Analyze building codes, by-laws, space and site requirements, and other technical documents and reports to determine their effect on architectural and civil designs.
3. Coordinate structural, electrical, and mechanical designs and determine a method of presentation to graphically represent building plans.
4. Resolve arising conflicts between various design components.
5. Draw and print rough and detailed scale plans for foundations, buildings, and structures, based on preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets, and other data.
6. Determine and direct procedures and instructions to be followed, according to design specifications and quantity of required materials.
7. Obtain and assemble data to complete structure designs, visiting job sites to compile measurements as necessary.
8. Issue requests for information (RFI) documents to inquire about conflicting or missing information.
9. Analyze technical implications of architect's design concept, calculating weights, volumes, and stress factors.
10. Represent architect on construction site, ensuring builder compliance with design specifications and advising on design corrections, under architect's supervision.
11. Check dimensions of materials to be used and assign numbers to lists of materials.